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MERRY G0 ROUND. No. 288,018. Patented Nov. 6 1883.

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MERRY-GO-R OUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,018, dated November 6, 1883. Application filed September 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Tnoniis G. CLIFFORD, of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new Improvementin Merry-go-Rounds and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact'description of the same, and which said drawings'constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l, a top or plan view; Fig. 2, a side view, a portion broken away for illustration,

the center a motion will be imparted to the boat similar to that imparted to boats on water bythe waves. i t

To this end my invention consists in the arrangement of two arms foreach boat, the said arms radiating from a common center, and at their outer end each fitted with a wheel the axis of which is eccentric, the longer diameter of one in opposite direction to the longer diameter of the other, the said arms elevated and the wheels arranged to run upon a circu- 1211 track, whereby an alternate up-and down movement will be imparted to the said arms, combined with a boat suspended therefrom by flexible connections, whereby a universal swinging motion will be attained, as well as a fore and aft "up-and-down movement, and as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the central revolving shaft, and to which power is applied in the usual manner for merry-go-rounds. B is a circular track concentric therewith, and elevated to a'considerable distance above the point where the pasby a pivot-joint, as at a, so as to permit an upand-down vibrationof the axles, such up-and down vibrations being independent each of the other. I

At the outer end the axles are fitted each with a wheel, E, the hole in each wheel, in

which the axle takes its bearing, being eccentric to the periphery of the wheel, and arranged so that the longer diameter of one is in the opposite direction to the longer diameter of the other, as seen in Fig. 2-that is, the wheel on the axle O standing with its longer diameter downward, the wheel on the axle D will stand with its longer diameter upward, and so that as the wheels revolve the axles are accordingly carried from their highest position to their lowest point, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3. The wheels being of equal diameter, the axis of one 'wheel ascends as the other descends, and vice versa.-

From one axle a flexible connection,-b, extends downward, and from the other a like flexible connection, d, extends downward,

- one connected to the forward end or how of a boat, F, and the other to the stern, as seen in Fig. 2. v v

The several pairs of axles are connected by rods e or otherwise, so as to retain them in their proper radial position relative to each other.

Power being applied to rotate the shaft, the suspended boats are carried around in a circle, the bows and sterns alternately rising and falling to the extent of the eccentricity of the. two wheels. At the same time the flexible connections betweenthe boat and the axles permit the boat to swing to the right and left as well as fore and aft, and thus a universal rocking movement is imparted to the boat, very closely resembling that which results from the waves acting upon a boat on the water.

I claim- 1 In a merry-go-round, the combination of the elevated circular track 13, the radial axles boat F, suspended fore and aft from said pairarranged in pairs, 0 D, each of the axles proof axles by flexible connections, substantially Vided with a Wheel, E, to run upon said track, as described.

each Wheel having its bearing upon the axle THOMAS G. CLIFFORD.

5 eccentric to its periphery, the longer diameter \Vitnesses:

of a one of each pair in the opposite direction GEO. O. LLOYD, to the longer diameter of the other, and the vVILLIAM GIBBoNs. 

